Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 3 through May 9, 2026. The National Weather Service and the North Carolina Department of Public Safety are teaming up to bring this hurricane safety campaign to all ...

From Category 1 to Category 5, hurricane forecasters' famous rating system has become ingrained in the minds of millions of Americans from Texas to Maine. The scale, known as the Saffir-Simpson ...

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is on a direct path toward northeastern Australia, where it will make a rare landfall as a powerful storm. "Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to rapidly intensify and could ...

The World Meteorological Organization has officially retired the name 'Melissa' from their list of hurricane names. The News 8 Storm Team gathered the latest details. The World Meteorological ...

A committee agreed to retire the name after Hurricane Melissa hit the Caribbean in October 2025 as a Category 5, USA Today reported. “At its peak, Melissa was classified as a category 5 storm based on ...

The World Meteorological Organization has announced that "Melissa" has been retired from its rotating Atlantic storm name lists because of the deaths and destruction the powerful cyclone caused across ...

View post: CDC Issued Level 3 Emergency Response for Hantavirus: What It Means Hurricane Melissa retired after causing over 90 deaths in the Caribbean in 2025. Melissa will be replaced by Molly on the ...